India - Participation in Education, July 1995 - July 1996, NSS 52nd Round

Reference ID

IND-MOSPI-NSSO-NSS-52-25.2-1995-V2.

Year

1995 - 1996

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - NSSO

Sponsor(s)

Govt. Of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Type of current education (TYPE_CUR_EDUCATION)
File: BLOCK 4 Education particulars...

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 92311
Invalid: 0

Definition

Education is broadly divided into two categories:
(i) general education and (ii) technical and vocational education.
General education, in this survey, includes general school education from the primary to the higher secondary level, normal
university education for a degree including professional education like Engineering, Medicine, Agriculture, etc. Other technical
and vocational courses like those offered by ITIs, polytechnics, etc., are included under technical and vocational education.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Type of current education

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	general	91920	99.6%
2	technical	391	0.4%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

Type of current education refers to whether the education followed is a general course or a technical course. Code 1 or 2 will be accordingly given. Normal university education for a degree including those in engineering, medicine, agriculture, law etc. are to be treated as general education course only for this schedule.